The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.
Shane ClaiborneWe are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
Shane ClaiborneBut as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
Shane ClaiborneMoney has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.
Shane ClaiborneJesus is challenging that when addressing "who is your neighbor" and he has a lot of hard things to say about family, "unless you hate your own family you are not going to be a disciple." He is challenging the limits of our compassion and our love as if someone's kid suffers it should be as devastating to us as if it were our own kid. That is what the early church said.
Shane Claiborne